

Abrase
2015-04-08 · 8 min · ★ 2.3
The fading love of two men, remembered. A relationship once vivid, now dissipating into a fog of partial remembrance; the memories of heartbreak and loss that bend and change as the years go by.
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- Toshadeva Palani
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- United States of America
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